This is as perfect an occasion as any to decide and return to active blogging — a habit developed with LiveJournal in the February of 2001. Over the last few years I felt no urge, no need to blog, save…
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To block or not to blog… That is the question!
It happens once again! A fingernail grew too long, and the government decided to chop off the hand! And this is not the first time the Government of India has acted in an ill-informed knee-jerk manner. In 2003, we made…
MS “Hacker” sent to prison…
From the pages of Wired.com: Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail Nobody was ever arrested for leaking the secret source code for parts of the Windows operating system in 2004, but a hacker who sold a copy online afterward was sentenced…
You claim first amendment ONLY if you use your real identity…
It’s illegal to annoy A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet,you must disclose your identity. Here’s the relevant language.: “Whoever…utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types…
A magic book on the Net
Came across an interesting “Magic Book” professed to be Tom Riddler’s Diary, directly inspired from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I wonder if there are any connections here to Eliza or the updated magician’s version Orville. Nakul PS:…
Forwarding fake warnings… Watch out!
Before you start getting worked up about an email that tells you that a “woman at a Gas nightclub (Mumbai) on Saturday night was taken by 5 men, who according to hospital and police reports, gang raped her before dumping…
